{"id":47174,"date":"2015-11-26T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=47174"},"modified":"2015-11-26T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:27:21","slug":"ios-developer-adds-3d-touch-to-ipad-pro-using-apple-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/ios-developer-adds-3d-touch-to-ipad-pro-using-apple-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS developer adds 3D Touch to iPad Pro using Apple Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/apple-pencil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/apple-pencil.jpg\" alt=\"apple-pencil\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/apple-pencil.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/apple-pencil-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/apple-pencil-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/apple-pencil-730x410.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veteran iOS hacker \/ developer Hamza Sood has impressed the &#8216;net with his latest project: enabling 3D Touch on the iPad Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The hack is pretty clever, too. 3D Touch works on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus thanks to pressure sensors built into the screen. These sensors aren&#8217;t present on the iPad Pro, but there\u00a0<em>are<\/em> pressure sensors in the Pro&#8217;s Pencil stylus. The hack uses that stylus data instead, multiplying by a constant value in order to provide a similar feeling to using 3D Touch with your finger. That means you can&#8217;t use 3D Touch on the iPad Pro without the stylus, but it&#8217;s still quite a useful hack.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the hack in action below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Useless project of the day: using Apple Pencil pressure data to drive the 3D Touch engine&#10;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y3GNEZ8sfh\">https:\/\/t.co\/y3GNEZ8sfh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OwYpI9kIqD\">pic.twitter.com\/OwYpI9kIqD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hamzasood\/status\/668931560687693825\">November 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With 3D Touch capabilities enabled on the iPad Pro, you\u00a0can\u00a0press harder with the Apple Pencil to access shortcuts, additional functions and variable-speed video scrubbing. For example, you can press lightly to &#8216;peek&#8217; at links to see them without moving off the page you&#8217;re on, and press harder to &#8216;pop&#8217; and actually open these links. Reviews of 3D Touch state that it&#8217;s not essential for getting around in iOS, but it is definitely a convenient time-saver.<\/p>\n<p>3D Touch debuted with the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus this autumn, and is itself\u00a0based on a simpler system called Force Touch that was released with the Apple Watch. We already know that 3D Touch is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/how-to-weigh-things-with-your-iphone-6s\/\">accurate enough to work as a digital scale<\/a>, so it&#8217;s nice to see it\u00a0unlocked for the iPad Pro. If you&#8217;re paying nearly \u00a31000 for a tablet and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/apple\/ipad-pro-12-9-inch\">essential accessories<\/a>, then you definitely want to get as much out of it as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Sood has released his work <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/hamzasood\/02e6e87835a17f4e1b9e\">via GitHub<\/a>, so if you&#8217;re happy to deploy this yourself using Xcode, then you should be able to add these functions to your iPad Pro as well. Hopefully we&#8217;ll see this nicely bundled up as an iPad app, perhaps released on the Cydia marketplace, before too long.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the news? 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